

built to meet the specific demands of contemporary high-end production rendering.to support creative individuals and studios of every size."īroken down, Redshift is a biased GPU render engine that allows for different ways of calculating final rendered images. Parsed from Redshift's website, "Redshift is the world’s first fully GPU-accelerated, biased renderer. Let's get started! What is Redshift for Cinema 4D? We created a 3D Glossary if you find yourself stumped by anything written below. Some terms used in this series may be a bit geeky.

If you've never heard of Redshift or curious about using it in Cinema 4D, this is the article for you. In this article we'll introduce the Redshift render engine. You can catch up on part-one, An Overview of Arnold in Cinema 4D and part-two, An Overview of Octane in Cinema 4D. Welcome to part-three of our four-part render engines series, covering Cinema 4D's four top talked about render engines: Arnold, Octane, Redshift and Cycles.

Click "Yes" and proceed with the installation: The Redshift installer will warn you that no Cinema 4D installation was detected in that folder this is fine. This time instead of installing to the default location, create a new folder on your computer and tell the Redshift installer to install Redshift there:

Redshift still currently uses the old method of installing plugins which is to create a "plugins" folder in your Cinema 4D installation path (C:\Program Files\Maxon Cinema 4D R20\plugins on Windows, or Applications/Maxon Cinema 4D/plugins on Mac) and install Redshift there. Firstly, please check that your machine machine the required specifications in the link below.
